An Yi wanted to see the face of the Black-Cloaked Figure clearly.
But bizarrely, the Black-Cloaked Figure's face seemed to be covered by a layer of mosaic; no matter what, his features remained completely obscured.
"What, not going to keep fighting?"
The Black-Cloaked Figure asked leisurely, completely at ease.
An Yi stared at him coldly. "Why are you constantly looping this day!"
The ability to loop time—An Yi had never imagined that someone could actually achieve such a feat.
"Because I need to stall for time."
The Black-Cloaked Figure said flatly, making no secret of his goal.
An Yi asked coldly, "Stall for what time?"
"Stall the time of your departure to the Ancient Continent," the Black-Cloaked Figure said slowly.
An Yi's pupils shrank. He said coldly, "Who exactly are you?"
The Black-Cloaked Figure ignored him and continued speaking on his own, "If you were given a chance to not go to the Ancient Continent, would you take it?"
An Yi's eyes narrowed slightly. Staring at him coldly, he repeated the same words: "Who are you!"
"Answer me!"
The Black-Cloaked Figure gazed at him and said coldly, "The current you has everything in this world—wealth, strength, status! Stay here obediently and do not go to the Ancient Continent!"
An Yi revealed a thoughtful look.
The Ancient Continent... looking back on it now, it felt like a lifetime ago.
However, whenever he thought of that night, the sight of tens of thousands of Night Gate members dying tragically, he felt his heart spasming continuously.
He had been cowardly; he had wanted to give up.
He even wanted to just stay in this world and live out his life in peace.
But when he fell asleep, that depressing agony made it impossible for him to let go!
This was no longer something he could give up just because he wanted to.
"The Ancient Continent is an endless path of no return. The truth is far more cruel than you can imagine. Are you sure you still want to go?" the Black-Cloaked Figure questioned.
An Yi stared at him and said indifferently, "Why are you trying to stop me?"
"Because the future you will regret this decision."
The Black-Cloaked Figure stared at him faintly and said sternly, "If you are willing to choose again, I will do everything in my power to assist you."
When he reached the emotional part, the Black-Cloaked Figure's voice even trembled.
"Heh, sorry, impossible!"
An Yi said with a smile.
The Black-Cloaked Figure fell silent. After a long time, he let out a sigh of resignation.
An Yi kept his eyes fixed on the Black-Cloaked Figure and said slowly, "I think I know who you are!"
The Black-Cloaked Figure chuckled. "It's useless even if you guess it, because you won't be able to remember me."
"You were the one I ran into a few days ago too, weren't you? What is your purpose?" An Yi asked in a deep voice.
The Black-Cloaked Figure continued to ask, "Are you sure you won't let it go?"
A rare sharpness appeared in An Yi's eyes as he said deeply, "This is my obsession since coming to this world. Unless I die, I will definitely return to the Ancient Continent!"
"As expected, your guess was absolutely right..."
The Black-Cloaked Figure said slowly, not knowing who he was talking to.
He had indeed been indulging in wishful thinking.
He also knew clearly that forcefully interfering with everything would lead to consequences that perhaps even he couldn't guarantee to handle.
"Keeping time continuously frozen on April 1st, what exactly are you trying to do?"
An Yi stared at him in confusion and asked.
"Three years. I stalled you for three years!"
The Black-Cloaked Figure said flatly.
Loop after loop, over a thousand times.
The time between the two planes had already diverged.
This was the only way he could change the ending!
An Yi's gaze became solemn.
Three years!
He had actually looped the exact same day for three whole years!
Was all of this for him?
What on earth happened in the Ancient Continent!
To think it required stalling him for three years!
"This is already my limit. More and more people have awakened; looping is no longer meaningful."
The Black-Cloaked Figure said flatly, "From now on, you're on your own..."
...
The world was gloomy, covered in dark clouds, and the sound of surging thunder echoed.
Ferocious lightning tore through the sky!
An exceptionally terrifying atmosphere lingered in the air.
Everyone was stunned, looking at the horizon in disbelief.
They didn't understand what this sudden thunder was all about!
The world seemed to have suddenly entered the apocalypse, unspeakably terrifying.
Lin Chen, covered in dirt and looking extremely disheveled, gripped his Cloud-Splitting Crutch and stared in disbelief at the Black-Cloaked Figure walking on air in the sky.
Just who on earth was he!
"Still want to fight?"
The Black-Cloaked Figure asked leisurely in a lazy voice.
On his finger, a streak of blue-purple lightning crackled and danced.
"Kid, don't hesitate, run!"
Long Tianyuan's voice, carrying a bit of shock, roared deeply.
He had never witnessed such terrifying spiritual pressure; this had far exceeded the limits of what this world could bear.
Hearing this, Lin Chen slowly halted the Wind Burst he had prepared for a desperate last stand.
He had never felt such powerlessness.
The opponent was strong, so strong that it exceeded his imagination.
Lin Chen had never thought that human power could cause the heavens to change!
"Oops, the power was magnified. This world can't take much tossing around."
In the sky, the Black-Cloaked Figure muttered to himself.
He hadn't expected that just exerting a little power would make the entire world unable to bear it.
"Troublesome!"
The Black-Cloaked Figure said slowly.
The lightning wreaking havoc between heaven and earth began to gather, constantly colliding with each other.
Streaks of lightning fell from the sky, striking down!
Boom!
A lightning pillar tens of meters wide crashed down! A mountain peak was split right open.
"Loop!!"
Another black-clad figure appeared, reached out his hand, and looped time.
The lightning and dark clouds all vanished, and the sky returned to its previous clarity.
"What are you doing?"
The arriving Black-Cloaked Figure pushed up his black-framed glasses and pulled back his hood.
This person was none other than Chen Bing!
However, he looked much more mature and steady, faintly showing the changes of time.
"Seeing Old Lin when he was still a total noob, I couldn't help but want to test him out. I didn't expect to lose control."
The Black-Cloaked Figure surrounded by lightning also pulled back his hood to reveal his face. It was Bai Xiu.
At this moment, Bai Xiu's handsome face no longer had that hint of childishness. Surrounded by lightning, he looked even more mysterious.
"How is the situation handled?" Bai Xiu asked.
Chen Bing spoke up, "I probably got recognized. Three years is about as long as we can stall. However, many people have already noticed the time loop. Next, I need you to wrap things up."
"Piece of cake."
Bai Xiu chuckled softly. "The Ancient Continent. But thinking back, it was indeed quite difficult for us back then. Now, we've gotten through it all."
"We've done what we needed to do. It's just Shen Muxuan who's a bit of a headache."
Chen Bing smiled bitterly with some helplessness.
Without her, he probably could have kept stalling.
Because the laws of space and time had absolutely no effect on her.
Bai Xiu said, "You came here once before and were heavily injured by the laws of space and time. You weren't discovered by them, right?"
Chen Bing chuckled lightly. "I overestimated myself back then and just wanted to try. I didn't expect to show a flaw and get discovered."
"With me here, just treat it all as a dream."
Bai Xiu said slowly, "For now, they should still be dealing with the Hundred Ghosts Sect. A fierce battle is coming."
"Let's head back," Chen Bing warned. "If we keep messing around like this, even I'm going to get scared."
Bai Xiu nodded.
A trace of purple surfaced in his eyes.
The world fell dead silent, as if enveloped in a dream!
Illusory, yet somehow real...
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
